Handle socket



C. F. SMITH HANDLE SOCKET Nov. 5, 1929.

Filed May 15. 1925 Patented Nov. 5, 1929 UNITED STATES- PATENT- OFFICE CUBTIBS I. SIITH, 01' WEST IARTI'ORD, CONNECTICUT, ABSIGNOB TO IKE FULLER BRUSH OOIPAIY, OI KABTI'OBD, CONNECTICUT, A GOBYOBATION 01' OONNECTICU '1 man: socxu Application 1101! Kay 18,

This invention relates to the class of devices that are commonly secured to the ends of handles frequently composed of wood or other fibrous material and to which various 8 implements, as brushes, mops and other devices, are attached, and an object of the invention, among others, is the productlon of a socket piece that shall be firmly and rigidly secured to the handle in a manner to prevent its removal.

One form of socket piece embodying the invention and in the construction and use of which the objects herein set out as Well as others may be attained is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Fi ure 1 is a front view of my improved ferriile shown as attached to a handle broken off.

Figure 2 is a view in central, lengthwise section looking in a direction from a point located at right angles to the point of view of Figure 1.

Figure.3 is a back view. Figure 4 is a view in section on a plane denoted by the dotted line 44 of Figure 3.

This invention is not limited for use in connection with any special form of implement or tool, as it may be readily employed in connection with any structure where a socket 80 piece or ferrule 1s required to be attached to a handle of wood or other suitable material. An instance of such use has comprised a socket piece having members integrally formed therewith by means of which brushes and similar articles are attached to the handle, and for this reason such a structure has been shown in the drawings herein as a means for disclosing the invention, in which drawings the numeral 5 indicates a handle, that may be composed of wood or other similar .material and 6 indicates the socket piece or ferrule that is formed of comparatively thin metal and that may have at its end a clamp device 7 or other structure for the attachment of an implement.

' This socket piece is secured to the handle by compression, as by the use of dies, in which operation the handle having been inserted in the socket piece and both then being .sub-

jected to the action of dies the metal compris- 1m. Imal Io. mm.

ing the socket iece is caused to tightly grip the handle an is thereby rigidly secured in place. When the ferrule is formed with a lengthwise slot this action of the dies may be such as to fold or stretch the metal around the handle and thus cause the .two parts to be securely engaged, and the same result will be obtained to a greater or lesser extent wi h a ferrule not having the lengthwise slot. n effecting the urpose of this invention the end 8 of the errule is formed into a lip 12 penetrating the material comprising the bandle and preferably entirely around the end. The meeting edges 9 of the socket piece are also treated in a similar manner, the dies being so formed that longitudinal lips 10 are created that sink into the material of the handle in the operation of compressing the ferrule about the handle so that the socket piece is not only pressed into close contact with the end of the handle, but it has also ion itudinal lips and a peripheral lip that is sun en into the material of the handle of wood or other substance so that any turning or endwise movement of the socket piece up- 7 on the handle is efi'ectually prevented. As

an additional means for securing the socket piece to the handle a lateral indentation 11 is formed across and partially around the socket piece op site the lengthwise slit therein, thus provl ing a rib inside the socket that is sunken into the material of the handle and crosswise thereof and as shown in Figures 2 and 4.

The indentation 11 in addition to preventing lengthwise movement of the socket iece on the handle is also made use of as a stitfening element to prevent spreading of the socket piece at the len hwise slot, and conqucnt loosening on the andle, which s )reading is, otherwise, liable to take lace under severe use which frequentl consists in striking the im lement at the errule across some ob'ectto s ake off the dust.

here is thus provided means for attacha5 ment of the ferrule or socket piece to the handle whereby the metal comprising such socket piece is pressed into close and firm contact with the end of the handle, and the edges are firmly embedded in the material of the la handle by a sin le 0 eration of a set of dies, it not being in erre by this statement that the socket piece may not, if desired, be partiall formed as an initial operation.

T 1e invention herein described provides a particularly eflicient means for securely at taching the ferrule to the handle as the structure embodies interenga 'ng means on the handle and ferrule locate at angles each with another and thereby preventing relative movement in all directions.

In accordance with the provisions of the patent statutes I have described the princi \les of operation of my invention, together with the device which I now consider to represent the best embodiment thereof; but I desire to have it understood that the device shown is only illustrative and that the invention may be carried out by othermeans and applied to uses other than those above set out.

I claim- 1. A socket formed of metal havin a lengthwise slit along one side, and an in entation extending crosswise and circumferentially partially around the socket as a stifiening element to prevent spreading at said lengthwise slit.

2. A handle, a longitudinally s lit socket member surounding the end of t e handle with the longitudinal edges parallel and sharpened, and a sharpened bent lip at the end of said socket member extending transvcrscly to said longitudinal edges and adapted with said sharpened edges to be driven into the handle. 7

CURTISS F. SMITH. 

